Real Housewives star formally charged in Palm Beach case

Thursday

One of the stars from the "Real Housewives of New York" reality TV show was officially charged for an allegedly drunken incident in December at a Palm Beach hotel.

On Wednesday the State Attorney’s Office filed charges against Luann de Lesseps for resisting an officer with violence, trespassing an occupied structure and disorderly intoxication in the Dec. 23 incident at The Colony hotel. The 52-year-old Bravo network reality star was allegedly intoxicated in the hotel and refused to leave a room that was not hers, according to the Palm Beach police report.

When officers arrived, de Lesseps refused to leave a bathroom she locked herself in, shoved an officer in the chest, slammed the door on another and then threatened officers when they put her in handcuffs, police said. She was released from the Palm Beach County jail on Christmas Eve on her own recognizance after Judge Ted Booras told her she should stop drinking.

Previously, de Lesseps faced three additional charges including two counts of corruption by threat and battery on a law enforcement officer. The state attorney declined to charge her on those counts.

In December, she apologized for her actions on Twitter and then she announced on her Instagram that she would voluntarily check into a rehab. On Dec. 29, de Lesseps pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.